by minimus 23 Replies latest jw friends
holy crap i did not even know there were 27 million dubs!...when did they hit that mark?............oompa
when i first really woke up and knew my life would never be the same......i was on SIX at once!!......idiot docs called three of them together a "california cocktail" it was such a popular combination......like there were ever drug studies on three drugs or more at once............
Anti-depressants are a scourge. Clearly over-prescribed!
The diagnosis and the treatment are out of sync - "I'm depressed" - "Okay here are some pills!"
Read Listening to Prozac, then decide if that is what you want for your life.
Prozac isn't everything it is cracked up to be. It was a great anti depressant from me for many years and the only difficulty was that I was at the highest dosage. In 1998 I was showing signs of neurological problems, my speech was impaired, I was having difficulty walking and I had problems remembering and the doctor thought I was showing signs of Mutiiple Scelrosis. I was sent to SunnyBrooke Hospital a very good hospital in Ontario in the Toronto Area. At one time it only served veterans from the war.
Anyway back to my story. I saw a neurologist and he ran several tests and was convinced I had neurological problems but didn't think it was MS. So he ordered an MRI and CT Scan and Pet Scan, they came back with no conclusive evidence of MS but did show some neurological distrubances. I was next to have the only test the could prove a hundred percent if I had MS, a spinal tap. So off to the hospital I went. I must admit I was somewhat apprehensive, I have been told many a horror story a bout Spinal taps, but I knew I had to have an answer. So I went in the August of 98 and then I went on a camping trip which was great but I was anxious to know the results of the test.
When I got home the doctor had called and wanted to see me, so I went and got the results of the ST and was told the same thing, there is no MS or Post Polio Syndrome. We know you have something neurologicaly happening and sometimes we don't have names for these conditons but sometimes it is an early indication that something is happening in your body and we will eventually have a name for it but until then nothing can be done.
So feeling somewhat depressed about all this I felt well now what. The symptoms were getting worse and my speech was getting worse and my walking was disasterous, like sideways, you''d think I was drunk (ok, so I was, but don't tell anyone,its our secret) just kidding. Well somehow or someway the subject of prozac came up and I heard on a television program that high dosages of prozac can cause difficulties. I contacted my specialist who prescribed the medication and told him what I had just heard, and he asked me to come in to see him.
When I arrived at his office he said to me. I think I know what is wrong with you Terry for the most part. Most of the neurological problems you are having are the direct result of the prozac. We are going to have to slowing get you off this drug. It is too bad because it worked so well. So after talking about it he said he looked it up in a recent medical journal and read that high dosages of Prozac can do this. It is extremely rare apparently from what he told me and wouldn't you believe it, it had to be me. It was a relief to know I didn't have MS, and at the same time I still have neurological problems and still they haven't figured out what it is or what to even call the conditon.
The doctor tried to get me started on a drug called Wellbutrin and wow that made me crazy all I did was cry and was a wreck on that, so the doctor tried Effexfor XR and bingo jackpot that was the drug for me and I have been on it ever since and it has been good for me. That and Doxipen, toperimate, and rivitrol, and baclofen, and cessemet , B12 and all my inhalers for asthma I am a walking drug store.
But hey it keeps me alive, to some extent.
and that is all that matters
Talk about an enigma, I am truly that.
I think I have used up more of Rufus' nine lives then Rufus. Sorry Rufus, you snooze you looze.
Orangefatcat.
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NIce info thx
it shows clearly that depression is a pandemic atm one of the biggest growing diseases (I have seen similar articles from other countries too). This gives a touch of reality to the 'Jws are all depressed' argument that you often hear. An exerise in availability cascade among anti-witnesses forums that articles like this are really helpful in showing them up for what they are.
Depressions is a hard battle and we need more real knowledge on it.
Reniaa
Depressions is a hard battle and we need more real knowledge on it.
I kinda think if we had more real knowledge there would be less depression
I kinda think if we had more real knowledge there would be less depression
I could kiss you.
This gives a touch of reality to the 'Jws are all depressed' argument that you often hear. An exerise in availability cascade among anti-witnesses forums that articles like this are really helpful in showing them up for what they are.
You really need to compare the rate of depression, not just absolute numbers ...
I'm the only female in my family NOT on anti-depressants.
I think it's because I eat chocolate every day. That's right....EVERY day.
I'm not saying this will work for everybody, but it works for me!
The problem for JWs is that they are supposed to be "the happiest people on earth" and that's simply bullshit.
That's depressing ... time for my anti-depressants.
